and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …. Although focus is on hurricanes in Florida, this GDD technique is applicable to a wider range of exogenous shocks. …

average worker in a Florida county rises over 4% within the first quarter of being hit by a major Category 4 or 5 hurricane … relative to counties not hit, and rises about 1¼% for workers in Florida counties hit by less major Category 1-3 hurricanes …

standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on Florida's school districts from the Florida … Department of Education combined with 4-H participation statistics from Florida 4-H. Specifically, we analyze the effect of the … extent of 4-H participation for third through tenth grade on the mathematics and reading subtests of the Florida …

Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … above the threshold value for admissions eligibility at a large public university in Florida are much more likely to attend … returns to college for the population of Florida high school students. Consistent with the credit constraints hypothesis …

We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different …

standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on Florida's school districts from the Florida … Department of Education combined with 4-H participation statistics from Florida 4-H. Specifically, we analyze the effect of the … extent of 4-H participation for third through tenth grade on the mathematics and reading subtests of the Florida …

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …